Leendert Blok: Silent Beauties - Color Photographs from the 1920s

Leendert Blok: Silent Beauties - Color Photographs from the 1920s

—$60

Description

In the 1920s, Dutch photographer Leendert Blok (1895–1986) worked in close collaboration with flower producers, providing color prints and autochromes for the catalogues of the species they cultivated. He portrayed flowers as objects of desire, using the Autochrome Lumière technique. With their muted tones and enchanting chiaroscuro, Blok’s photographs are reminiscent of botanists’ slides of yore, allowing each flower to become a sculpture.